Victor Zamudio Taylor

Fundación Jumex communicates the sad news of Víctor Zamudio-Taylor's passing. The Mexican curator, advisor, and promoter of contemporary art was born in Tijuana in 1956 and died in Mexico City.
An advisor to Eugenio López-Alonso, the president of Fundación Jumex, in the formation of its contemporary art collection—one of the most significant in Latin America—, Zamudio-Taylor worked hand in hand with the institution's in the development of its recently inaugurated Museo Jumex, located in the Mexican capital.
An expert in Latin American art and a renowned promoter of Latin American culture in the United States and Europe, Zamudio-Taylor was a Rockefeller Foundation Senior Associate Researcher at the National Museum of American Art and the American Art Archives, in Washington, D.C. He was also an advisor and curator for the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photography Collection and a curator at Fundación Televisa's Contemporary Art Collection and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACO) in Monterrey.
In the course of a long career in the art world, Zamudio-Taylor presented notable curatorial projects, such as Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (2001); California Project Rooms (ARCO 2004); Nuevos Territorios (ARCO 205); and Cities Scape (ARCO 2006). Among his most recent curatorial projects are Efecto Drácula. Comunidades en transformación, at the Museo Universitario del Chopo – MUCH (Mexico City, 2010); Now: Obras de la colección Jumex, at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas (Museo Cabañas, 2011-2012); and Chivo fresco, at Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City, 2012-2013).
Zamudio-Taylor also carried out a variety of independent curatorial projects, such as his work on "Light" for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California, in 2006, which was also presented at Light/Art: Mystic Crystal Revelation, in 2007.
Víctor, a close friend and collaborator of ArtNexus, was undoubtedly a significant figure who will be sorely missed, not only for his sharp insight on Latin American art, but for the affection he was able to generate during the years of his collaboration with this magazine.